Once you run firestarter once it puts the configurations in place and doesn't need to be run anymore unless you would like to view events, change things, etc. The firewall settings keep in place even when the GUI isn't open. -Adam <div>On 3/16/07, John Shane <<a href="mailto:jslists@mtwafrica.org">jslists@mtwafrica.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:35:38 +0100 Vincent <<a href="mailto:imnotb@gmail.com">imnotb@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > I use Firestarter at home, but I have no experience with any of the > other firewalls you mentioned, so I can't compare. I do know > Guarddog and Firestarter are the two best-known ones, and Guarddog > is KDE, so that's why I went with Firestarter. > > -- > Vincent > I've gone ahead and installed Firestarter and it's running fine.  I realize that the IP tables were already there but Firestarter makes a good front end to them plus shows any "events".  The apt-Synaptic installation was painless and got the init scripts in place so it's running as a service when I boot the laptop. However, XU's service-admin (Services) doesn't see Firestarter and while bum (Boot-Up Manager) sees Firestarter as a service it can't tell whether it's running (shows a "?"), but iptables -L gives a list of rules so I assume all is well. I have not yet convinced sudo/sudoers to let me start Firestarter without a password nor managed to get XFCE to start it automatically but that will come later when I have more time. John -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- -=:max:=-